M. Christina Butler
M Christina Butler was born in Scarborough. She had an idyllic childhood in the country where she spent her weekends playing on a farm among the animals. Christina has worked as a nurse, a pre-school nursery supervisor, and a governor at her local primary school, as well as writing a number of children’s books. She now lives close to York.
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I grew up in a tall Victorian London house with my parents, grandmother, aunt, uncle, younger sister Mary and cat Geoffrey (who was really a prince in disguise. Mary and I would argue about which of us would marry him).
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Feridun Oral
1961 yılında Kırıkkale`de doğdu. 1985 yılında Marmara Üniversitesi, Güzel Sanatlar Fakültesi`nden mezun olan sanatçının resim ve illüstrasyonları 1986 yılından bu yana yurtiçi ve yurt dışındaki bir çok sergi ve bienallerde sergilenmiştir.
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1993 yılında Unesco tarafından Tokyo`da düzenlenen Noma-Concour yarışmasında yazıp resimlediği "Ormandaki Ses" adlı kitabıyla Runners-Up ödülü, 2001 yılında da Avrupalı illüstratörler Bienali`nde "Düş Kedileri" adlı çalışmasıyla onur ödülü olan sanatçının yazıp resimlediği çocuk kitapları yurtiçi ve yurtdışında çeşitli yayınevleri tarafından yayınlanmıştır.
Resimlerindeki ironik dünyasını seramik tasarımlarına da aktaran Feridun Oral çalışmalarını İstanbul`daki atelyesinde sürdürmektedir.
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